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US 10,183,330 B2Granted
Skillful three-dimensional printing
AssigneeVel03D, Inc.
InventorsBenyamin Buller, Erel Milshtein, Thomas Blasius Brezoczky, Zachary Ryan Murphree, Daniel Christiansen, Alan Rick Lappen
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Abstract
The present disclosure various apparatuses, and systems for 3D printing. The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing methods, apparatuses, software and systems for a step and repeat energy irradiation process; controlling material characteristics and/or deformation of the 3D object; reducing deformation in a printed 3D object; and planarizing a material bed.
Claims52
A method for printing a three-dimensional object, comprising:
- (a) providing a material bed comprising a pre-transformed material;
- (b) planarizing an exposed surface of the material bed by displacing, with a first force, the pre-transformed material from the exposed surface into an internal compartment of a material remover, which planarizing comprises translating the internal compartment;
- (c) removing the pre-transformed material from the internal compartment with a second force;
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- (d) using an energy beam to irradiate at least a portion of the exposed surface to transform the pre-transformed material at the at least the portion of the exposed surface into a transformed material, wherein the transformed material is at least a portion of the three-dimensional object.
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A method for printing a three-dimensional object, comprising:
- (a) providing a material bed comprising a pre-transformed material;
- (b) planarizing an exposed surface of the material bed by displacing, with a first force, the pre-transformed material from the exposed surface into an internal compartment of a material remover, wherein displacing the pre-transformed material comprises attracting the pre-transformed material;
- (c) removing the pre-transformed material from the internal compartment with a second force;
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- (d) using an energy beam to irradiate at least a portion of the exposed surface to transform the pre-transformed material at the at least the portion of the exposed surface into a transformed material, wherein the transformed material is at least a portion of the three-dimensional object.
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A method for printing a three-dimensional object, comprising:
- (a) providing a material bed comprising a pre-transformed material;
- (b) planarizing an exposed surface of the material bed by displacing, with a first force, the pre-transformed material from the exposed surface into an internal compartment of a material remover;
- (c) removing the pre-transformed material from the internal compartment with a second force, wherein removing the pre-transformed material comprises pushing or attracting the pre-transformed material;
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- (d) using an energy beam to irradiate at least a portion of the exposed surface to transform the pre-transformed material at the at least the portion of the exposed surface into a transformed material, wherein the transformed material is at least a portion of the three-dimensional object.
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A method for printing a three-dimensional object, comprising:
- (a) providing a material bed comprising a pre-transformed material;
- (b) planarizing an exposed surface of the material bed by displacing, with a first force, the pre-transformed material from the exposed surface into an internal compartment of a material remover;
- (c) removing the pre-transformed material from the internal compartment with a second force;
- (d) using an energy beam to irradiate at least a portion of the exposed surface to transform the pre-transformed material at the at least the portion of the exposed surface into a transformed material, wherein the transformed material is at least a portion of the three-dimensional object;
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- (e) subsequent to (b) or contemporaneous with (b), recycling the pre-transformed material for use in the material bed, wherein the pre-transformed material is recycled during printing.
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A method for printing a three-dimensional object, comprising:
- (a) providing a material bed comprising a pre-transformed material;
- (b) planarizing an exposed surface of the material bed by displacing the pre-transformed material from the exposed surface into an internal compartment of a material remover, which pre-transformed material accumulates within the internal compartment while planarizing the exposed surface, which planarizing comprises translating the internal compartment;
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- (c) using an energy beam to irradiate at least a portion of the exposed surface to transform the pre-transformed material at the at least the portion of the exposed surface into a transformed material, wherein the transformed material is at least a portion of the three-dimensional object.
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A method for printing a three-dimensional object, comprising:
- (a) providing a material bed comprising a pre-transformed material;
- (b) planarizing an exposed surface of the material bed by displacing the pre-transformed material from the exposed surface into an internal compartment of a material remover, which pre-transformed material accumulates within the internal compartment while planarizing the exposed surface, wherein displacing the pre-transformed material comprises attracting the pre-transformed material;
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- (c) using an energy beam to irradiate at least a portion of the exposed surface to transform the pre-transformed material at the at least the portion of the exposed surface into a transformed material, wherein the transformed material is at least a portion of the three-dimensional object.
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A method for printing a three-dimensional object, comprising:
- (a) providing a material bed comprising a pre-transformed material;
- (b) planarizing an exposed surface of the material bed by displacing the pre-transformed material from the exposed surface into an internal compartment of a material remover, which internal compartment has a narrowing horizontal cross-section;
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- (c) using an energy beam to irradiate at least a portion of the exposed surface to transform the pre-transformed material at the at least the portion of the exposed surface into a transformed material, wherein the transformed material is at least a portion of the three-dimensional object.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.